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Every year Fantastic Fest is at the forefront of genre film programming, providing a veritable feast of degradation, mutilation and violence to it’s utterly insatiable audiences. Many times you’ll notice a specific thematic trend begin to emerge among the films selected by the fest’s demented programmers. For instance this year I must have counted at [...]
We all probably know somebody like Dennis O’Connor. That sort of crazed aggressive personality eager to jump on you about their theories on 9/11, the Illuminati, and Big Brother. They spend their days huddled in dark corners lit only by the harsh glow of computer monitors. They always have some sort of eye-opening tell-all YouTube [...]
Fantastic Fest is almost at its end, which means it’s of course time for the one and only Fantastic Awards! Now I could waste your time for a few paragraphs on the apparent ridiculousness of holding an Award Ceremony at the half-way point of a festival, but instead I’m going to save my tirades for [...]
To those not familiar with the work of Japanese Director Noboru Iguchi, a film about man-eating sushi may seem like the most absurd of all movie premises. However when one takes into consideration the fact that one of Iguchi’s last Fantastic Fest offerings revolved around evil “toilet” zombies (Zombie Ass)… well, perhaps killer tuna doesn’t [...]
The decision to step into the world of New Kids Nitro was one that was made literally at the last possible second. Originally, I was content to spend my witching hour with Kim Ji-Woon’s new sprawling apocalyptic guessing game, Doomsday Book. However while en route, I was assured that unless I was truly looking for [...]
For those familiar with the Alamo Drafthouse and their now 8 year old, blossoming Festival, the words Fantastic Fest conjure up all sorts of morbidly twisted imagery. It’s kind of a sick spin on the often cited Internet Rule 34, except in this case, it’s broadened to include the whole gamut of grotesqueness that one [...]
UK-based artist Olly Moss has a faultless track record in adding his own truly unique visual stamp to a host of stunning posters for past iconic genre features, and this one below for the 1981 John Landis classic, An American Werewolf in London, is no exception. Offered as a gift for those who purchased tickets [...]
Perhaps it is our fallible sense of curiosity, or even our penchant for surprises, but for some reason, Secret Screenings always seem to be the center of attention at any Film Festival. It’s like the one Christmas present that you get to open the night before. You try your best to choose wisely, all the [...]
Audience members who happened to stumble into Monday’s screening of Penumbra most certainly must have been expecting to see a riveting and somewhat strange horror film. What they most likely didn’t expect, was a surprise appearance from Phantasm director Don Coscarelli. It’s been almost 10 years since the director’s last film, Bubba Ho-Tep hit the [...]
I’m going to start this off by saying that in no way, shape, or form am I looking forward to the follow-up to Tom Six’s The Human Centipede [First Sequence], entitled The Human Centipede 2 [Full Sequence]. For those that might be, you’ll be interested to see that the sequel has had a new poster [...]
Well, after five days of rigorous screenings, and countless sleepless nights, the festival’s 70+ films and shorts have been narrowed down to but a select few which have been chosen as winners for this year’s Fantastic Fest Awards! Winning a Fantastic Fest award not only means your work has a better shot of surviving past [...]
While sitting through the multi-faceted programing schedule of Fantastic Fest, you’re bound to experience a full spectrum of genres ranging anywhere from the mildly fantastic to the outrageously crude. However probably the most interesting genre I have managed to stumble across thus far, is a Japanese sub-genre known as ‘Pink’ films. I’m going to assume [...]
The Fantastic Fest program guide’s description for the film ‘The Day’, immediately introduces the film’s director, Doug Aarniokowski, as “Robert Rodriguez’s prodigiously talented protégé”. If there is anything I hate to hear before seeing a film or listening to an album, it’s this exact type of selling point. It almost implies that because a person [...]
As I made my way into Grímur Hákonarson’s Icelandic comedy ‘Summerland’, I had done so with somewhat mixed expectations. The film itself seemed light in comparison to the sometimes outrageous assortment of films I had seen thus far, and I had been looking forward to a brief reprieve from the sick and twisted. As I [...]
The first day of Fantastic Fest can sometimes be the most important one. Energies are high and there is always a high amount of buzz circulating the festivals Opening Night Premiere. The job of such a premiere is to set the tone for audiences; It helps the audiences to adjust to this small microscopic sized [...]
Every year at Fantastic Fest, festival organizers pit country vs country in an nerdtastic intellectual showdown they like to refer to as ‘Fantastic Debates’. The event usually just consists of a podium style battle of wits, but this year, Fantastic Fest has a little something extra up it’s sleeve. In celebration of the regional premiere [...]
Artificial Eye have released a brand new UK trailer for We Are What We Are (Somos Lo Que Hay), a horror film from director Jorge Michel Grau. We Are What We Are stars Adrián Aguirre, Miriam Balderas, Francisco Barreiro, Carmen Beato and Juan Carlos Colombo and recently picked up three awards at last weeks Fantastic Fest in [...]
Fantastic Fest came to a close late last night after numerous horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult films were screened at the Alamo Drafthouse. It culminated with an awards ceremony in Austin, TX to honor the best of the festival. The press release from Fantastic Fest, including all the award winners, is embedded below: Austin, TX— Monday, September 27, 2010— [...]